Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 10

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• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Suffering, Half

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
  I work only under duress.

  Edward Abbey

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Men, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Human Nature, Domination

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Sex, Availability

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Feet, Water

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Boredom, Despair

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• Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

  Edward Abbey

  Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

  Edward Abbey

  Truth, Sorry, Knows

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• High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

  Edward Abbey

  Spring, Technology, Simple

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

  Edward Abbey

  Museums, World Literature, Pay

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Parent, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, People, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

  Edward Abbey

  Tragedy, Worth Living

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Real, Fall

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• But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

  Edward Abbey

  Wrath, Lust, Next

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Kissing, Belief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

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• Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

  Edward Abbey

  Baseball, Opportunity, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.

  Edward Abbey

  Song, Eye, Sea

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.40, Macmillan

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• What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

  Edward Abbey

  Freedom, Rights, Discovery

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• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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